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Hi! I am Yazmin, a natural light, lifestyle photographer living in the Atlanta area. I am a Christian, a mother, a wife, a daughter, a friend, a geek and coder. Thank you for stopping by my little slice of the "interwebs"!

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One of the things all aspiring photographers think about eventually is selling their images as stock photography. Just imagine visions of easy uploading, quick selling and dollar signs. About 2 years ago, I had the *brilliant* idea I would be come a stock photographer on the side.

How easily my bubble popped.

Creating a stock photography business is not an easy task. It’s not all shooting photographs and uploading. You also need a tough skin for rejection. Not to mention, your style of photography may not translate well to the needs of stock photography buyers.

At the time, it only took getting rejected by 2 of 3 major stock photography resellers to make me rethink my decision to start… there was also the amount of web development work I had at the time and what I felt was an enormous amount of time to prep an image for upload by keywording and titling each image for sale. I stopped after uploading 4 images. How pathetic, right?

Recently, I decided to go back and give stock photography a try. With several thousands of photos a year, I figured I had to have at least a few hundred photos I could immediately submit to stock agencies, starting with the one I am already a contributor to – Dreamstime.

Since it had been over 2 years since my first failed “experiment”… and I use the word experiment loosely, since I never even really gave it a good go… I decided earlier this week to really try it for a month. My plan is to upload as many images as possible. I already have 100+ set aside for uploading, with my total count today at 7. (A potty training party derailed my upload plans yesterday…)

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About the author: Yazmin

Hi! I am Yazmin, a natural light, lifestyle photographer living in the Atlanta area. I am a Christian, a mother, a wife, a daughter, a friend, a geek and coder. Thank you for stopping by my little slice of the "interwebs"!

Congratulations! I would love to get into stock photography, and had a bunch of images selected by getty but I procrastinated and with all the flickr/getty changes, I'm going to just hang back for a bit. Hope you sell many more <3 Reply